Bob Cudmore

Bob Cudmore is the author of Lost Mohawk Valley, Hidden History of the Mohawk Valley, Stories from the Mohawk Valley and You Can't Go Wrong.

Cudmore's first project on local history was to co-produce with Steve Dunn the WMHT-TV documentary"Historic Views of the Carpet City: Amsterdam, N.Y." in 2000.

The next year Cudmore began his weekly Mohawk Valley history column in the Daily Gazette, Focus on History. He produces the weekly interview podcast The Historians, available at www.bobcudmore.com/thehistorians and at soundcloud.com, search Eastline Radio. The Historians is also heard on RISE, WMHT's radio service for the blind and print disabled in the Albany area.

Widely known for hosting WGY radio's night time talk show Contact from 1980 to 1993, Cudmore hosted the morning radio show on WVTL in his hometown of Amsterdam from 2004-2014.

Cudmore was an adjunct professor in the Department of Communications at the College of St. Rose in Albany. He spent eight years in media relations with the State University of New York System Administration in Albany.

Cudmore has co-produced or narrated WMHT-TV documentaries on aging, local downtowns and railroads.